NASA is decommissioning two more instruments on the 47-year-old Voyager space probes due to dwindling power. Only three of ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

Launched in , Voyager and have ventured into interstellar space, becoming the farthest human-made objects from Earth, thanks ...

To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one ...

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, but both probes are ...

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...

The twin spacecraft launched in 1977 and are currently in interstellar space, or the space between stars. Voyager 1 ...

Last week, NASA powered down an instrument on Voyager 1 designed to study cosmic rays. The energy-saving moves were necessary to extend their missions, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd at the ...

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to talk about a new part of the immune system that's been discovered and how it could be a goldmine of potential antibiotics. NASA has switched off ...

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